Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
Startups almost never get it right the first time. Much more commonly you launch something, and no one cares. Don’t assume when this happens that you’ve failed. That’s normal for startups. But don’t sit around doing nothing. Iterate.
Paul Graham
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
I know it doesn't sound like a big effort, but programmers are really, really lazy, and they like to minimize motion. They'd use feeder tubes if the Health Department would let them.
Steve Yegge
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan